It’s no secret that I struggle with e-ddiction.
Yep. I love being online. If I’m not careful, checking email, facebook, twitter etc. become the very first thing I do in the morning and the last thing I do at night.
Total disclosure: I’ve been known to hop online via my iPhone for a few seconds at a red stoplight and even sneak away to check email in the bathroom. Yep. E-ddicted.
Slowly, I’m getting a grip. Disciplining myself that the computer doesn’t get turned on until after coffee, a work out, a quiet time, and eggs. Saying adios to the laptop at the end of the day. Learning that my iPhone doesn’t have to go everywhere.
This weekend my loving husband took things to the next level. He turned off my incoming email for the weekend. He knew that these two days off were particularly precious to us–we’ll be working the next ten in a row because of scheduling–so he shut down the incoming email.
And it was……wonderful, peaceful, glorious, pleasant, fabulous.
Sometimes we need people to step into our lives and help us in areas where we are too weak to help ourselves. Now make no mistake, the Sunday School answer to the question, “Who saves you from yourself?”, is always Jesus. But often God places people in our lives to help us recognize areas of imbalance or overindulgence in a gracious, loving, I’m-for-you-way to help save us from ourselves.
Who is saving you from yourself? How are they doing it? What are some loving ways people are bringing out the very best of yourself?
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